Microsoft releases AppFabric caching software, BizTalk Server beta
Microsoft this week offered a release candidate of its Windows Server AppFabric technology for caching of Web applications. A general release is planned for next month.
The company also made available a beta release of BizTalk Server 2010, which supports Windows Server AppFabric. BizTalk Server 2010 is due to be released to manufacturing -- which happens shortly before the product is made generally available -- in the third quarter of this year.
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Open source BI vendor ties up with Hadoop
Open source business intelligence company Pentaho has said that it will become the first BI company to support Apache Hadoop, the project that offers a framework for large volume database analysis.
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Dell: Netbooks not a replacement for laptops
Netbooks may have won over many users with their relatively low cost and small size, but Dell doesn't see the lightweight machines ever replacing laptops with more powerful processors inside.
"There's been some over-exuberance on this product in the marketplace," said Steve Felice, president of Dell's consumer, small and medium-size business unit, during a conference call with reporters.
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FCC: Industry consolidation eroding mobile wireless competition
The U.S. mobile wireless industry has become increasingly concentrated over the past five years, and carriers' network capital investment has not kept pace with their revenue gains, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Thursday in its annual report on mobile competition.
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Social networks may be sharing your info with advertisers
Lately, social networking sites have been bending over backwards to assure their users that user privacy is of utmost importance -- but
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Does Google have Wi-Fi data from your company?
Google is facing scrutiny and investigation around the world following revelations that it has been capturing and archiving Wi-Fi data collected by its Google Street View vehicles that drive around capturing the image data used by the Street View service.
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Google's Wi-Fi snooping earns it a class-action lawsuit
Google's secret Wi-Fi sniffing has prompted a class-action lawsuit that could force the company to pay up to $10,000 for each time it snatched data from unprotected hotspots, court documents show.
The lawsuit, which was filed by an Oregon woman and a Washington man in a Portland, Ore., federal court on Monday, accused Google of violating federal privacy and data acquisition laws.
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Update: Dell profits up 52 percent on improved corporate sales
Dell reported its first increase in quarterly profits for two years on Thursday, helped by an uptick in commercial spending and its ongoing efforts to reduce costs.
Net income for the three months ended April 30 was $441 million, up 52 percent from the same quarter last year. Excluding one-time charges, Dell made $0.30 per share, ahead of the $0.27 forecast by financial analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.
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Venture capitalist forum pegs the top tech trends
According to a group of venture capitalists, technology trends to watch for range from social networking to health maintenance and an emergence of new companies.
Venture capitalists gathered in Silicon Valley on Wednesday evening to name top 10 technology trends at a business and technology forum in San Jose, Calif., conducted by the Churchill Club. Audience members were called on to affirm or reject the trends.
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HP recalls more batteries that pose a fire hazard
Hewlett-Packard has extended a worldwide recall program for batteries that could cause laptops to overheat and pose a fire hazard.
The company on Wednesday said it added new battery models to an original laptop recall program announced May 14 of last year and updated last October. The lithium-ion batteries are being used in more than 30 models worldwide in HP's laptop brands including Compaq Presario, Pavilion, HP and HP Compaq.
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Google rolls out IT-friendly Android OS upgrade
Google detailed on Thursday its Android 2.2 OS, featuring enterprise-level enhancements as well as a speed boost and Flash support.
Codenamed "Froyo," for frozen yogurt, Android 2.2 includes more than 20 new features geared to enterprises, said Google's Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering. Among these is integration with the Microsoft Exchange messaging system, with such capabilities as account auto-discovery and linkage with the Exchange global address book. Calendar synchronization is offered as well.
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